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with the two rocky crags, had, as we could see, a strip of 

 bare land along the shore on the northwest side. Was 

 it there, perhaps, the Ross's gulls congregated and had 

 their breedino'-o-rounds ? The island to our south also 



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looked large; it appeared to be entirely covered by a 

 glacier.* Between the islands, and as far as we could 

 perceive southeast and east, the sea was covered by per- 

 fectly flat fjord-ice, but no land was to be discerned in 

 that direction. There were no icebergs here, though 

 we saw some later in the day on the south side of the 

 island lying to the south of us. 



" The glacier covering the little island on which we 

 stood joined the fjord-ice almost imperceptibly; only a few 

 small fissures along the shore indicated where it probably 

 began. There could not be any great rise and fall in 

 the ice here, consequent on the tide, as the fissures 

 would then, as a matter of course, have been consider- 

 ably larger. This seemed remarkable, as the tidal cur- 

 rent ran swift as a river here. On the west side of the 

 island there lay in front of the glacier a rampart of ice 

 and snow, which was probably formed of pieces of gla- 

 cier-ice and sea-ice welded together. It had the same 

 character as the massive shore-ice which we had seen 

 previously running along the land. This rampart went 



* The first island I called " Eva's Island," the second " Liv's Island," 

 and the little one we were then on " Adelaide's Island." The fourth 

 island south of us had. perhaps, already been seen by Payer, and named 

 by him " Freeden Island." The whole group of islands I named " Hvidt- 

 enland " (White Land). 



